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Romania Revealed: Saxon Villages, Transylvanian Cities and Byzantine Monasteries 2023 Romania Revealed: Saxon Villages, Transylvanian Cities and Byzantine Monasteries 2023 24 MAY – 6 JUN 2023 Code: 22314 Tour Leaders Dr Adrian Jones, OAM Physical Ratings Explore Romania’s great scenic beauty & diverse culture in rich art collections, walled cities, medieval castles, Saxon fortified churches, frescoed Moldavian monasteries & secluded old villages. Overview Assoc. Professor Adrian Jones, OAM and arts educator and consultant Angelica Iacob lead this tour of little-known, extraordinarily diverse Romania. Moldavia's unique heritage of painted monasteries, where every inch of both inner and outer walls is covered with brilliantly coloured late medieval and early modern Byzantine paintings. Centuries-old wooden churches and villages nestled in medieval agricultural landscapes of isolated Maramures; one of the richest heritages of wood architecture in the world. Picturesque old Saxon cities originating from the 11th-century German migration to Transylvania. Medieval fortified churches built by German migrants; these once existed in Western Europe but are long gone from there. Grand country houses and palaces like Princess Marie of Romania's Pelisor, and Mogosoaia Palace, which fuses Italian Renaissance, Ottoman and indigenous elements in a unique harmony. Fine collections of Romanian and European art with brilliant Eastern icons and the works of masters such as Van Eyck, Brueghel, El Greco, Rembrandt and Brancusi. Priceless collections of gold artefacts, dating from the Paleolithic to the 20th century. Beautiful mountain landscapes, with some of Europe's most ancient forests. Some of the best collections of old Turkish carpets outside Istanbul's Topkapi Palace and the V & A, in old Saxon churches, especially Brasov's Black Church. Overnight Bucharest (3 nights) • Sibiu (3 nights) • Baia Mare (1 night) • Borsa (1 night) • Sucevita (1 night) • Piatra Neamt (1 night) • Brasov (2 nights) • Bucharest (1 night) Testimonials The tour title is truthful, but there’s so much more; old and new Bucharest, modernity and tradition sitting side by side in very beautiful countryside, fine art and wonderful music, royal castles, good food and drink and friendly people. The tour leadership and organisation was first class. I am very pleased I went and would go to Romania again in an instant. Hugh, VIC. Having been used to touring independently, this was my first-ever guided tour. It certainly exceeded my expectations in terms of the knowledge and friendliness of leader Chris and local guide Angelica. The group all got along well with each other because of their professional backgrounds and their openness to learning, and willingness to interact with each other along the way. I found the whole experience very enjoyable and enriching. Jan, VIC. Overview This cultural tour explores Romania's fascinating complexity, arguably the most diverse culture in Europe. In Wallachia, Moravia and Transylvania, separated from each other by the densely forested Carpathian Mountains, we encounter an extraordinary and largely unchanged medieval, Renaissance and Baroque visual culture. We discover the meeting of the Latin and Germanic West with the Byzantine, Slav and Gypsy East. Medieval Saxon villages and fortified churches, Hungarian castles and towns, and German trading cities with grand Gothic cathedrals contrast with walled monasteries whose chapel walls are covered, inside and out, with brilliantly coloured Byzantine frescoes. In Romania, city and country stand in stark distinction. Sophisticated Bucharest and Sibiu have fine museums with rich collections of works by Van Eyck, Brueghel, Rembrandt, Manet and Monet, as well as colourful Eastern icons, tapestries and intricately carved wooden doors. Saxon trading cities like Brasov, meanwhile, preserve the greatest collections of old Turkish carpets outside Istanbul. In contrast, we’ll explore Romanian peasant culture, which has survived unchanged in the Romania Revealed: Saxon Villages, Transylvanian Cities and Byzantine Monasteries 2023 March 2021 Page 2 isolated villages of Maramures and Bucovina, with distinctive wooden churches rivalling the masterpieces of Russia and Norway. Romanian folk culture has generated what Yehudi Menuhin considered Europe’s richest musical tradition and the folklorist Moses Gaster deemed the world’s most distinctive corpus of folk tales. 19th-century nationalists celebrated this living past which in turn encouraged a reaction by Romanian modernist artists of world standing including Brancusi, Tristen Tsara, Marcel Iancu, Dada poets and the absurdist Ionescu. We also explore Romania’s post-Soviet national identity in which the past’s rich diversity is overlaid by an energetic, often edgy, modernity. Romania Revealed: Saxon Villages, Transylvanian Cities and Byzantine Monasteries 2023 March 2021 Page 3 Leaders Dr Adrian Jones, OAM Associate Professor of History and the Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University. Adrian is a Harvard graduate and expert in Russian and Balkan history. Dr Adrian Jones, OAM is Associate Professor of History at La Trobe University. Adrian graduated with a BA from the University of Melbourne, an MA from La Trobe University and an MA and PhD from Harvard University, where he specialised in Russian and Balkan history. His publications include a scholarly monograph, Late-Imperial Russia: An Interpretation (1997) and a local history, Follow the Gleam (2000), which won the Information Victoria prize for the best print publication on history in 2001. He has published scholarly articles on historiography, educational theory, comparative revolutions, and French, Balkan, Russian and Turkish social and intellectual history. Adrian is currently researching a book on Russian-Romanian-Ottoman relations in the early-eighteenth-century era of a famous “Tulip Age” Sultan, Ahmet III, of a Moldavian prince, Dimitrie Cantemir, who should be famous, and of the greatest of the Russian Tsars, Peter the Great. A foundation Director of the [Australian] National Centre for History Education and a former Chair of The History Council of Victoria, Adrian was awarded a national Learning and Teaching Council award in 2008, and an Order of Australia Medal in 2009 for his teaching and professional activities. Adrian currently leads ASA tours to Russia, Romania and Slovenia. Combine this tour with Bulgaria & the Black Sea: Painted Towns, Byzantine Monasteries & Thracian Treasures 2023 10 MAY – 24 MAY 2023 Russia’s Romantic Soul: Moscow, Novgorod & St Petersburg 2023 11 JUN – 27 JUN 2023 Cornwall, Devon, Southern Wales & the Wye: Picturesque Coasts and Country Life 2023 6 JUN – 26 JUN 2023 Romania Revealed: Saxon Villages, Transylvanian Cities and Byzantine Monasteries 2023 March 2021 Page 4 Itinerary The detailed itinerary provides an outline of the proposed daily program. The daily activities described in this itinerary may be rotated and/or modified in order to accommodate changes in museum opening hours, flight schedules etc. The tour includes breakfast daily, lunches and dinners indicated in the detailed itinerary where: B=breakfast, L=lunch and D=dinner. Bucharest - 3 nights Day 1: Wednesday 24 May, Arrive Bucharest Orientation Meeting and early Welcome Dinner Those taking ASA’s ‘designated’ flight will arrive at Bucharest’s Henri Coanda Otopeni Airport, Otopeni. After clearing passport and customs, we shall drive to our Bucharest hotel. If you are travelling independently to Bucharest, we can arrange a private transfer for you, or you should take an officially marked taxi to the Mercure Bucharest City Center. There will be a short orientation meeting before we enjoy an early evening meal together. (Overnight Bucharest) D Day 2: Thursday 25 May, Bucharest Morning coach tour of central Bucharest National Museum of Romanian History National Museum of Art of Romania: European masterpieces Romanian Athenaeum (exterior) Visit and drinks at Vasile Grigori Museum Bucharest, first mentioned in documents in 1459, evolved from a 14th-century settlement that was part of a chain of fortresses built across the Danube plain to protect Wallachia from the Turks. In the 18th and early 19th centuries it was subject to Phanariot Greeks, who ruled as clients of the Divine Porte. In 1862, when Romania Revealed: Saxon Villages, Transylvanian Cities and Byzantine Monasteries 2023 March 2021 Page 5 Moldavia and Wallachia were united, it became Romania’s first national capital. Bucharest has a unique urban form. Unlike many Western European capitals it was never surrounded, and therefore constricted, by a city wall; the Turks would not allow the fortification of Wallachian cities. Although Bucharest does possess a tightly packed historic core, the Lipscani district, most of the city developed over a wide area, its beautiful 15th and 16th century monasteries, inns and palaces separated by swathes of countryside; Bucharest’s early plan seems to have been based loosely upon the Italian schema for an ‘ideal city’, originating in European notions of Jerusalem. In the 17th century, more churches were built, and in the 18th century many villas were added. The Phanariot Greeks built houses based upon the homesteads and inns of the Christian quarter of Istanbul, with deeply overhanging eaves and courtyards. The Phanariots also introduced public squares – maidan – of the type that is seen throughout Asia (eg Isfahan). The creation of the first Romanian state in 1862, and the subsequent incorporation of Transylvania after WWI, led to two
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